Future of Microfluidics: SMILS 2026

Prof. Lourdes Basabe, University of the Basque Country (EHU / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea).

Independent researcher interested in the field of micro bioengineering and lab-on-a-chip technologies. Ikerbasque Research Professor since 2012, Director of the Microfluidics & BIOMICS Cluster UPV/EHU since 2019, Principal Investigator of the BIOMICS-microfluidics Research team since 2014, Young Member of Jakiunde, the Academy of Science and Arts of the Basque Country since 2016.

Dr. Gaspard Pardon

Graduated with a MSc in Microengineering from EPFL in 2008, with a PhD in Electrical Engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. His graduate research focussed on the engineering of novel micro- and nanofluidic devices for rapid Point-of-Care diagnostics of infectious diseases, including the detection of airborne pathogens. Since March 2021, Gaspard joined EPFL to become Head of the Bioengineering and Technology platform at the AGORA Translational Cancer Research Center.

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Prof. Marianne Fenech

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. She leads the "Biofluid and Biorheology" lab, where her research focuses on blood flow behavior in microcirculation. She is currently a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Biomedical Engineering in Dr. Maria Tenje’s group at Uppsala University.

Prof. Heiner Linke

Professor in Solid State Physics at Lund University. His research group uses experimental and numerical methods to study transport phenomena far from thermal equilibrium. They research nanoelectronic systems, artificial protein motors, nanotechnological applications of biomolecular motors such as in network-based biocomputation, and explore fluid motion driven by ratchet phenomena.

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